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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrce.

JAMES P. NIEMANN, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN WV. FOULKS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,562, dated September 1, 1885.

(No model.)

To (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. NIEMANN, of-

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in \Vhip-Sockcts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to whip-sockets, and has for its object to provide a whip-socket with a rubber, which is detach able, and which is held firmly in position by its own conformation as will be fully explained hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of the specification, my'invention is fully illustrated, letters of reference being used to i ndicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

Figure 1 represents the top end of a whip socket with my improved rubber a. attached. Fig. 2 represents the same with the rubber a removed, showing the transverse slots 0, through which the rubber is inserted. Fig. 3 represents a top view of the rubber a, showing the inwardly-projecting pieces 6, which are adapted to fit in the slots c, as will be hereinafter described; and Fig. 4 represents a section through the line :v m, Fig. 3, showing in crossseotion one of the pieces 6, and the groove (5 on the lower side of the same.

Rubbers that have been applied to whipsockets heretofore, as a rule, have been attached to the interior of the socket, and in a short time become loosened and useless. It will be easily understood that my improved rubber and socket overcomes this difficulty, and that the rubber is beyond any possibility of being removed by the whip.

As shown at Fig. 2, the upper end of the whip-socket is provided with three (3) transverse slots, 0, leaving sections of the material between the slots of sufficient strength to hold the top of the socket firmly, the material of which the socket is made being usually of thin metal. The rubber, as shown at Figs. 3 and 4, is made to form a flat band with three fiat sections, which are thinner than the width of the band, extending inwardly toward the center, the inner edges of these pieces 0 combined to form a circle which is the requisite size to admit and hold the whip in place. On the lower side of the pieces 0, close to the band portion of the rubber, is a channel or groove, (1. These grooves are for thepurpose of giving more elasticity to the pieces 6, which will permit the whip to be withdrawn more freely.

The rubber is stretched over the top of the whip-socket with the groove (Z side down. The

inwardly-projecting pieces are fitted in the transverse slots 0, and the invention is complete, and will have the appearancesimilar to that shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is

1. A whipsocket provided with the transverse slots 0, and a rubber adapted to be inserted from the outside to hold the whip in position, as described and specified.

2. A whip-socket provided with the transverse slots 0, in combination with the rubber constructed, as described, with the inwardlyprojecting pieces 6, all as described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in whip sockets, as above described, I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of January, 1885.

JAMES P. NIEMANN.

W'itnesscs:

VVILLIAM KELLY, ROBERT J. KIRK, Jr. 

